imagined feeling like an outsider in my own home. Unfortunately I wouldn’t even go as far as considering my current home as “my home.” I live in a house with eight people and two dogs and for some‚ that might not even be slightly overwhelming‚ but for me it is. I try to keep my heart open about the situation‚ but I always end up feeling like I don’t belong. Given the circumstances of my situation‚ I would say life definitely turned out better than what I initially expected‚ but I was left feeling like
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Feeling like “Other” Shanell Mbamalu Cultural Diversity Fall 2014 Feeling like “Other” I will be exploring a time when I felt like “other”‚ in this situation I was made to feel invisible‚ excluded and too visible all at the same time. In this situation I mainly felt excluded but nonetheless I felt all of the above. My husband is Nigerian and I am African American‚ he attends a Nigerian church and all of the members are Nigerian. Every time I go to church with him I feel as if I am too visible because
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OUTSIDER The story I am going to tell you is about my experience when I felt like an outsider. Being isolated from others can be difficult and frustrated. Sometimes people would treat you different because you are not the same as them. In life‚ there is a point where someone would feel like an outsider. Getting used to the isolation feeling can take a while‚ but you can overcome it by getting involves. You may feel like an outsider at the beginning but then later on things will eventually change
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1: Questions 3 and 4 (p. 21) 3) James says‚ “I feel like an outsider.” How might you work with his statement? As a facilitator‚ this writer would ask James if he could identify anyone in the group he feels he is not an outsider with and how the relationship is different. This writer would ask James to identify what he needs to feel he is not an outsider. This writer would encourage James to continue to express when he is feeling like an outsider and also challenge James to open himself up to others
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just true for middle school‚ but also life in the 50s. The book The Outsiders focuses on two main cliques‚ the Greasers and the Socs. One might think that the name represents Greasers‚ and what they have to deal with‚ but the real outsiders are specific people. The outsiders are the people who dare to be different from the stereotype of their group‚ who believe people should be judged on who they are‚ not social class. Major outsiders in the book are Darry‚ Ponyboy‚ and Cherry Valance. Darry is the
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Feelings Is it love or lust is the question we ask ourselves many times in our lives. In the essay “I fell in love‚ or My Hormones Awakened” written by “Judith Ortiz Cofer”‚ tells a very similar story. She describes herself as a “skinny Puerto Rican girl” (Cofer 681) that is longing for a boy that is “not Puerto Rican‚ He is Italian and rich.” (Cofer 680) This boy is older than her; therefore she believes he is out of her league. The girl admirers the boy from a far‚ while trying to keep it a secret
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‘The Outsiders’ written by S.E Hinton demonstrates that violence can cause much change to a person on the inside as well as outside. This book became an immediate success when it was written during the 1960’s and was based around the reputation and the stereotypes of that current decade. If you were a kid growing up in Tulsa‚ Oklahoma you either belonged to one of two groups‚ a “Soc” or a “Greaser”. In this book‚ there are many differences between the two groups‚ which tends to cause much violence
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The Outsiders S.E. Hinton “No rival gangs‚ only Socs. And you can’t win against them no matter how hard you try‚ because they’ve got all the breaks and even whipping them isn’t going to change that fact.” The Outsiders a novel that was first published in 1967 by the author S.E Hinton is not only a novel about gang mentality and gang rivalry but is also about how a person could feel like ‘an outsider’ based on where they live or how much money they have. In Pony Boy’s case it was his grades that
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‘The Outsiders’ by S.E Hinton shows the challenges of teenagers in America during the 1960’s. Many of the characters in the novel are ‘heroes’ as they face their fears and become better people. Johnny was a character to remember. He overcame his own fears to save the lives of pony-boy and a group of young children. Darry was courageous due to the sacrifices and choices he made to his family. Cherry Valance will be highly remembered for all she stood up for and all she believed in. Although all these
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The Discrimination of Outsiders ZZ Packer’s Drinking Coffee Elsewhere a book that consists of many short stories that are very similar in plot‚ however very different in the overall meaning of the story. Throughout her compilations of short stories Packer grasps the idea of being labeled an “outside” in our society. In these three stories “Brownies‚ Drinking Coffee Elsewhere‚ and Geese” all of the main characters of the story receive discrimination from their other peers. In one story “Brownies”
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